Lactuca virosa
lact-virAcrid Lettuce This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest. Seems to be a true galactogogue. Marked action on extremities.
Lactuca virosa — Materia Medica
Lactuca virosa — mind · William Boericke
Stupefaction of sense. Great restlessness.
Lactuca virosa — head · William Boericke
Dull, heavy, confused, dizzy. Heat of face and headache, with general coldness. Headache, with affections of respiratory organs.
Lactuca virosa — abdomen · William Boericke
Sensation of weight, of fullness; borborygmi; abundant emission of wind. Colic in early morning, abdomen tense, relieved somewhat by evacuation and passing of wind.
Lactuca virosa — chest · William Boericke
Difficult breathing. Suffocative breathing from dropsy of the chest. Constant tickling cough. Incessant, spasmodic cough, as if chest would fly to pieces. Squeezing sensation in lower chest. Female.––Promotes catamenia. Increase of milk in breasts (Asafoet).
Lactuca virosa — extremities · William Boericke
Lame hip down left side; worse walking. Coldness and numbness of feet and legs. Tremor of hands and arms. Cramps in shin bones, extending to toes and side of leg involving calves.
Lactuca virosa — sleep · William Boericke
Restless; impossible to get to sleep. Deep, comatose sleep.
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